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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6d

People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are.

And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 6d

Last week, we commemorated #WrongfulConvictionDay. Eddie Wright, the newest MA exoneree, spoke about the impact of his 41 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. We also lifted up the names & cases of some of the people still fighting for their freedom today. This piece captures the day well.

Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Edward “Eddie” Wright spent 41 years in prison after he was convicted of murdering his friend, a crime he said he had nothing to do with.

But on Wednesday, he joined his lawyers and other advocates outside the #Massachusetts State House to call for an end to wrongful convictions.

#mapoli

Mr. Wright Goes to Boston

After spending 41 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, Edward Wright joined advocates in Boston to call for an end to wrongful convictions

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 6d

Last week, we commemorated #WrongfulConvictionDay. Eddie Wright, the newest MA exoneree, spoke about the impact of his 41 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. We also lifted up the names & cases of some of the people still fighting for their freedom today. This piece captures the day well.

Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Edward “Eddie” Wright spent 41 years in prison after he was convicted of murdering his friend, a crime he said he had nothing to do with.

But on Wednesday, he joined his lawyers and other advocates outside the #Massachusetts State House to call for an end to wrongful convictions.

#mapoli

Mr. Wright Goes to Boston

After spending 41 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, Edward Wright joined advocates in Boston to call for an end to wrongful convictions

andrewqmr.substack.com

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Edward “Eddie” Wright spent 41 years in prison after he was convicted of murdering his friend, a crime he said he had nothing to do with.

But on Wednesday, he joined his lawyers and other advocates outside the #Massachusetts State House to call for an end to wrongful convictions.

#mapoli

Mr. Wright Goes to Boston

After spending 41 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, Edward Wright joined advocates in Boston to call for an end to wrongful convictions

andrewqmr.substack.com

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 6d

The criminal legal system has always been used as a tool to dehumanize and control people with the full participation of communities who have been convinced that this is the only option for safety. The immigration detention system uses the same myths and tactics. We must choose freedom over fear.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 9d

Our first #WrongfulConvictionDay event in New Hampshire! We are so grateful to exonerees Scott Hornoff and Kristine Bunch for sharing so much of themselves in order to create change. We must all learn from those most impacted.
www.concordmonitor.com/2025/10/02/t...

'There shouldn't be a limit at all': Exonerees urge N.H. to open its tight window for new criminal trials - Concord Monitor

Former Rhode Island police officer Scott Hornoff waited in prison for six years, four months and 18 days before he was exonerated. Convicted of murder in 1996, Hornoff worked for years to prove his in...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 9d

It's #WrongfulConvictionDay and we are so grateful to @mayorwu.boston.gov for recognizing that "wrongful convictions are an injustice that robs an innocent person of their life, liberty, & dignity and has an immeasurable personal, familial, emotional, & societal cost." #mapoli #bospoli

Whereas: International Wrongful Conviction Day was established on October 2, 2013, by the Innocence Network to raise awareness of the causes and harms of wrongful convictions, & to recognize organizations like the New England Innocence Project, Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) Innocence Program, & Boston College Innocence Program, as well as programs like the Exoneree Network, which collectively work to free innocent people from prison & support families impacted by incarceration; AND
Whereas: According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there have been 3,724 known exonerations since 1989 nationwide, including 93 known exonerations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts & in Boston, there are 41 known exonerees, representing innocent individuals who lost a combined total of 674 years of liberty to wrongful incarceration, and there are an unknown number of wrongfully convicted people who have not yet been exonerated, some of whom still remain in prison; AND
Whereas: In Boston, Black, Indigenous, & People of Color making up 78% of exonerees who were wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit, with systemic racism, coerced pleas, eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, inadequate legal defense, official misconduct, misapplication of forensic science, & unreliable and unrelated informant testimony being some of the major factors that contribute to wrongful convictions; AND
Whereas: Wrongful convictions are an injustice that robs an innocent person of their life, liberty, & dignity and has an immeasurable personal, familial, emotional, & societal cost. An Act Preventing False Confessions (H.1847 / S. 1136) is one initiative, introduced and pending in the state legislature, that aims to prevent wrongful convictions from happening in the first place; NOW
Therefore: I, Michelle Wu, Mayor of the City of Boston, do hereby declare October 2nd, 2025, to be:
Wrongful Conviction Day in the City of Boston

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 10d

Today is International #WrongfulConvictionDay. We have a chance this legislative session to change the compensation law in Massachusetts to better support wrongfully convicted people after all they’ve suffered. If you live in MA, please ask your legislators to support S1132/H1965. #mapoli

Advocates rally for reform on Wrongful Conviction Day in Massachusetts

Edward Wright spent 41 years in prison for a 1984 murder in Springfield that he did not commit, but the most he could collect from the state is $1 million.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 10d

Today is International #WrongfulConvictionDay. We have a chance this legislative session to change the compensation law in Massachusetts to better support wrongfully convicted people after all they’ve suffered. If you live in MA, please ask your legislators to support S1132/H1965. #mapoli

Advocates rally for reform on Wrongful Conviction Day in Massachusetts

Edward Wright spent 41 years in prison for a 1984 murder in Springfield that he did not commit, but the most he could collect from the state is $1 million.

www.wcvb.com

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 11d

Eileen O'Neill Burke made it harder for people to have their innocence claims investigated by the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit — one of several ways her office is weakening review of wrongful convictions. Read the latest from us and @boltsmag.org:

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations…

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 11d

*TODAY (Oct. 1) at 12:30 Eastern!* Join us in person (or virtually) for our press conference at the Massachusetts State House, "Misconduct, Lies, & Systemic Injustice: Lessons from the Exoneration of Edward G. Wright," in honor of #WrongfulConvictionDay! [livestream: www.facebook.com/newenglandin...

A photo of Stephanie Hartung, Senior Staff Attorney at the New England Innocence Project, holding a poster of Edward Wright in front of the Massachusetts State House

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 11d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 12d

An important piece on how technology can create, not erase, harm in the criminal legal system.

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Tech Won’t Fix Eyewitness Identification - Will Collins - Inquest

Eyewitness identification is a deeply flawed practice. Adding facial recognition technology, with its veneer of objectivity, only worsens the crisis of mass incarceration.

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Erika Uyterhoeven @electerika.bsky.social · 13d

It was truly a joy to reconnect with Eddie Wright who won his freedom and exoneration this summer after 41 years in prison for a wrongful conviction that should have been overturned decades ago. Welcome home Eddie!

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UC Irvine School of Law @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social · 24d

The Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (@korematsuctr.bsky.social) at UCI Law, together with @newenglandinnocence.org & Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP, filed an amicus brief in Commonwealth v. Robinson before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 27d

"When I went to prison, my father tried not to burden me with the stresses of his life because he, too, had been incarcerated and understood what I was going through. In his attempt to support me, he did not tell me he had severe lung cancer."

The Harshest Pains of Prison Are Suffered Inside

Being cut off from family and friends is often the most devastating part of serving time in prison.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27d

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 28d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · Sep 12

At Voices of Innocent: Dreams of Freedom, we were overjoyed to have Jeneé Osterheldt (@sincerelyjenee.bsky.social) guide us through a powerful night of storytelling by people impacted by wrongful incarceration, celebrate Eddie Wright's exoneration, & so much more. Watch the replay (start at 22:15).

1.3K views · 37 reactions | Voices of the Innocent: Dreams of Freedom | New England Innocence Project

Voices of the Innocent: Dreams of Freedom.

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Enbee (They/he/she) @enbeeprince.bsky.social · Sep 11

A wonderful and inspiring org and night. Check out the replay if you missed it.

New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · Sep 10

*TONIGHT! Join the Facebook livestream of Voices of the Innocent!* If you're not able to join us in person at City Winery Boston tonight, please tune in to the livestream at 6:55 p.m. EST on our Facebook page. No Facebook account is needed to join. www.facebook.com/newenglandin...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · Sep 10

*TONIGHT! Join the Facebook livestream of Voices of the Innocent!* If you're not able to join us in person at City Winery Boston tonight, please tune in to the livestream at 6:55 p.m. EST on our Facebook page. No Facebook account is needed to join. www.facebook.com/newenglandin...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · Aug 24

Join us at Voices of the Innocent: Dreams of Freedom on September 10 in Boston, where we will hear from three people directly impacted by wrongful convictions, celebrate Edward Wright’s exoneration after 41 years in prison, and so much more! Tickets here:
www.newenglandinnocence.org/voicesofthei...

Voices of the Innocent — New England Innocence Project

Voices of the Innocent is the New England Innocence Project’s biggest annual storytelling event and fundraiser. Hear stories from innocent people impacted by wrongful convictions and their loved ones ...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · Aug 24

We are officially taking #FreeEddieWright off our profile because he is now FREE! Now, we will continue working to #FreeThemAll. It is an honor to do this work. Read about Eddie’s journey to freedom here: www.newenglandinnocence.org/innocence-bl...

Edward Wright Exonerated! — New England Innocence Project

Edward Wright Exonerated After 41 Years In Prison for a 1984 Springfield Murder He Did Not Commit  Hampden County District Attorney’s Office Ends the Prosecution of Mr. Wright

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · Aug 21

UPDATE: The Hampden County District Attorney's Office dropped the murder case against Edward Wright today. The decision ends a decades-long legal battle by Wright to regain his freedom and clear his name.

#Massachusetts #mapoli

Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · Aug 13

NEW: Edward Wright spent 41 years in prison for a murder he has always said he did not commit. But he was released in July, after a judge found prosecutors intentionally concealed the fact that a break-in to the crime scene contaminated a key piece of evidence.

#Springfield #Massachusetts #mapoli

“I just want to heal”

Edward Wright spent 41 years in prison after he was convicted of murder. But a judge overturned his conviction after learning prosecutors withheld important evidence.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · Aug 21

An exoneration. Freedom after 41 years in prison. A prosecutor’s office still unwilling to acknowledge egregious misconduct. Just another day in Springfield, Massachusetts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/m...

Prosecutors won’t retry man whose conviction in 1984 Springfield slaying was overturned - The Boston Globe

A judge vacated Edward Wright's conviction in April, citing exculpatory evidence that had been withheld by prosecutors and “blatantly false testimony” given by a Springfield detective during the trial...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · Aug 21

BREAKING NEWS!!! Edward Wright was exonerated today! After 41 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Mr. Wright is finally cleared today after the District Attorney chose to end this prosecution. His conviction was previously overturned due to prosecutorial and police misconduct.

‘Truly free’: Edward Wright, freed after four decades in prison, will not be prosecuted again

Due to the “significant passage of time and the loss of key witnesses," Wright will not be prosecuted again, the DA's Office said.

www.masslive.com

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